APHC010620732025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT AMARAVATI [3521]

(Special Original Jurisdiction)

TUESDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY FIVE PRESENT THE HONOURABLE DR JUSTICE Y. LAKSHMANA RAO CRIMINAL PETITION NO: 11978/2025 Between:

Chukka Appalaraju and Others ...PETITIONER/ACCUSED(S)

AND The State Of Andhra Pradesh ...RESPONDENT/COMPLAINANT Counsel for the Petitioner/accused(S):

1. J RAVI KUMAR Counsel for the Respondent/complainant:

1. PUBLIC PROSECUTOR The Court made the following:

ORDER:

Criminal Petition has been filed under Sections 480 and 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for brevity ‘the BNSS’), seeking to enlarge the Petitioners/Accused Nos.1 and 2 on bail in Crime No.234 of 2025 of Anandapuram Police Station, Visakhapatnam Commissionaerate, registered against the Petitioners/Accused Nos.1 and 2 herein for the offences punishable under Sections 109(1) read with 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for brevity ‘the BNS’).

2. Sri J. Ravi Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioners, submits that the petitioners are innocent and have not committed any offence. They have been falsely implicated in this case due to animosity between